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Obamacare Website is a Disaster, Hides True Costs

If you want to know how successful a government program is, there are three things you could consider: the theory behind the program, how the administration implements it, and what the program actually accomplishes in the real world.

Much has been written about the problems with the rationale behind Obamacare and it is impossible to know, right now, what the full effects of the law are going to be. Instead, I’m going to focus on how the Obama administration has rolled out their signature accomplishment. Spoiler alert, they’ve done a terrible job.

The way that most people have tried to sign up for Obamacare has been through the website, www.Healthcare.gov. This $94 million project has been a virtual disaster. Even the New York Times has had to acknowledge the site’s shortcomings. This begs the question: if the Obama administration can’t even keep something as basic as the website working properly, then how can we expect them to manage the entire health care system?

One of the major reasons for the delays, crashes, and other problems with the website stem from the fact that people trying to sign up must submit an enormous amount of personal information before they can even look at their insurance options. Imagine how bad the lines would be at McDonald’s if they asked for your name, address, social security number, etc. before they even let you in the door. Now imagine 15 million people trying to do this all at once and you’ve got a pretty good idea of why only about 51,000 people were able to enroll in the first week.

To top it all off, even when you do get through to see your premiums, the website only shows you the subsidized price. You don’t get to see how much of your tab Uncle Sam will pick up until after you’ve bought the insurance.

The fact that the White House is trying to obfuscate the real price of insurance premiums under Obamacare suggests that they don’t want the American people to find out how much the law will truly cost us. So much for “the most transparent administration in history.”

There seems to be a problem with the media reporting on the fact that the estimated cost of the website was 94 million and that the real cost exceeded 600 million and three years for a failure. This fact alone demonstrates the incompetence and disaster of government when they think they know whats best for people and we can't decide for ourselves. This is only the beginning (the first step of Obama care a failure) of what lies ahead in instituting Obama care. Obama will have his legacy as the president who took down U.S. with ill willed decisions and policies that led us into bankruptcy and failure. The greatest nation on earth loses the trust of the people and its allies as it falls into darkness because those elected did not honor their promises and fight for America.

Breaking with the Trump administration, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) ecently announced that he intends to protect the health insurance company subsidies that had previously been a part of ObamaCare. This is all in line with the Senate Majority Leader’s desire to stabilize the market which he believes is “collapsing” (in large part thanks to ObamaCare). Though reform in this field is absolutely necessary, doling out handouts to well connect insurance companies who helped write the bill are only going to help prevent necessary reform and continue a crony mindset in Washington that needs to go the way of the dinosaur.

Without any significant legislative victories and a frustrated base, Senate Republican leadership and most rank-and-file members of the Republican conference need to take a good, long look in the mirror and ask themselves this question: "What are we doing here?"

Reports continue to come in about the results of implementing ObamaCare. Recently, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a report on the effectuated enrollment, or in other words selected a plan for the first two months of the year and paid their first month’s premium of ObamaCare. The results were admittedly rather surprising as they did not meet the expectations of where the program was supposed to be at this point.

America’s welfare system is not working. The War on Poverty has failed miserably , and few in Congress have even broached the topic of serious welfare reforms. Members of the House Freedom Caucus have led the way in the this Congress, but, aside from their efforts at real conservative reform, there is little traction for those seeking to make welfare sustainable. Luckily for Americans, Congress doesn’t control their fate, they do.

Is this spike in job growth a sign that businesses are hopeful for the economy under the Trump administration? According to the May 2017: ADP Employment Report, the private sector added 253,000 jobs in the month of May, up from 174,00 jobs added in April. Small businesses account for one-third for the workforce creating 83,000 new jobs last month with increases in construction, education and health, and professional business services.